The Case of the MH370 Wing Segment Keeps Getting Weirder
An ongoing investigation has failed to verify the claim that the flaperon belongs to MH370, and the story keeps getting weirder.
An ongoing investigation has failed to verify the claim that the flaperon belongs to MH370, and the story keeps getting weirder.
An excellent article at Hopes and Fears wondered if our future robot overlords are going to spend their weekends getting baked out of their minds.
In the not-too-distant future, patients with damaged hearts or livers might receive tissue patches grown in a lab. This week, researchers announced an important development toward that goal.
Life on Mars may sound glamorous, but in reality it’s going to mean a lot of time crammed in a small bubble with a few other humans. This could end very badly.
Tracking the movement of ivory through the nebulous, international black market is extraordinarily difficult. One journalist’s solution? Build the world’s most convincing fake tusk, and stick a tracking device inside.
This is essentially Terminator tech for space travel.
A newly released video depicts the seas surface height change over 22 years, and its predictions are somewhat disturbing. If you live near the coast, you might want to look away now. See more >>
This messy mass of colourful orbs shows how cancer grows. In tumours, a single, malignant cell type often dominates. A new computer model is helping researchers understand why, and it could pave the way to more effective cancer treatments. Read more >>
Future hangover remedies are going to be weird.
Deep space is a wonderland of strange and awe-inspiring sights, but few astronomical curiosities match the exquisite beauty of the Twin Jet Nebula, a dying, binary star that looks like a pair of iridescent butterfly wings. Read more >>
Tri Alpha Energy says it’s built a machine that can hold a hot blob of plasma steady at 10 million degrees Celsius for five whole milliseconds.
Mind. Struggling. To. Process. Wild. New. Scientific. Information.
Wouldn’t it be great if one jab could protect you for life? A lifetime flu vaccine isn’t impossible, and we’re making progress toward one, but we’ve still got a ways to go.
If MIT computer scientists have anything to say about it, a glorious new era of crash-tolerant file systems may soon be upon us.
Humans aren’t very good at dealing with heat, but some life forms have to live with scorching temperatures and extreme drought all the time.
This particularly meth lab was nowhere near as sophisticated as Walter White’s. It was small, crude, and pretty much destined to self-destruct.
